Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI's Sora, are as conspicuous as ever. A WIRED investigation, which included a review of hundreds of AI-generated videos, has found that Sora's model perpetuates sexist, racist, and ableist stereotypes in its results. In Sora's world, everyone is good-looking. Pilots, CEOs, and college professors are men, while flight attendants, receptionists, and childcare workers are women. Disabled people are wheelchair users, interracial relationships are tricky to generate, and fat people don't run.

Data scientist Sahar Nasiri originally went to college to study industrial engineering. After taking Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on a professor's recommendation, however, she knew she wanted her future to be in AI. Now she uses AI to help Delta Airlines keep its planes in top operating condition. She spoke with us about her early interview struggles, how she landed her first job, and the value of truly understanding statistics. Can you tell me about your current role? When did you start, what is your title, and what are your primary responsibilities?

Have you ever been advised to "walk a mile in someone else's shoes?" Considering another person's perspective can be a challenging endeavor -- but recognizing our errors and biases is key to building understanding across communities. By challenging our preconceptions, we confront prejudice, such as racism and xenophobia, and potentially develop a more inclusive perspective about others. To assist with perspective-taking, MIT researchers have developed "On the Plane," a virtual reality role-playing game (VR RPG) that simulates discrimination. In this case, the game portrays xenophobia directed against a Malaysian America woman, but the approach can be generalized.

Tesla will unveil a prototype of its Optimus robot in September, Elon Musk has revealed. The Tesla CEO said the company's AI Day would be delayed in order to debut the humanoid robot, which the billionaire has claimed could be "more significant" than the company's electric car business. "Tesla AI Day pushed to Sept 30, as we may have an Optimus prototype working by then," Mr Musk tweeted. "Tesla AI Day 2 will be epic." The Optimus robot was first teased last August at Tesla's inaugural AI event, with Mr Musk saying it would have "profound implications for the economy".

Wait, change that, go ahead and panic. Sometimes people momentarily lose their minds and opt to panic. This primal urge can be handy as it invokes the classic fight-or-flight instinctive reaction to a situation. If you suddenly see a bear up ahead while in the woods, it could be that rather than carefully trying to plot out all of the myriad of options about what to do, entering instead into a panic mode might get your feet moving and you'll have run far from the bear before it has had a chance to do anything to you. On the other hand, it could be that your effort to run away is not wise and the bear easily catches up with you, allowing the bear to win and perhaps an untoward result for you. Not many of us will likely get into a circumstance of confronting a bear, and so let's consider something that might be higher odds of happening to any of us. Suppose you are in an airplane and the plane is on the ground and engaged in fire. Presumably, with or without panic, you'd realize that you should get out of the burning airplane. How can you get out of the burning airplane? I'm sure you've all sat through the flight attendants telling you to figure out beforehand the nearest exit to your seat. I'd bet that most people don't look to see where that exit is, and instead just kind of assume that when there's an emergency they'll figure out where the exit is.

Today's leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese On this Episode of Voices in AI Byron speaks with futurist and author Alexandra Levit about the nature of intelligence and her new book'Humanity Works'. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm and I'm Byron Reese. Today my guest is Alexandra Levit, she is a futurist, a managing partner at People Results and the author of the new book, Humanity Works. She holds a degree in psychology and communications from Northwestern University.

From The Terminator to Ex Machina, Hollywood has a long history of portraying robots and Artificial Intelligence as an evil cohort with little regard for human life. But what is more alarming than a robot trying to eliminate the human race? How about one trying to take your job? In many places, the future of work is visually represented by robots, and we're bombarded by headlines claiming it's only a matter of time before robots take away our livelihoods. Can you imagine robots as your new office workers?

That has been the advertising slogan, on and off, for Delta Air Lines since the 1960s. Throw in a We Love to Fly, and It Shows, You'll Love the Way We Fly and a few other customer-focused taglines and you get the idea that Delta, if it makes good on its slogan – or brand promise, as it is often called today – will make its customers very happy. It did, and it was featured in a case study in Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.'s 1982 mega-bestselling book, In Search of Excellence, that featured Delta as one of the most excellent companies in the world. Delta was founded in 1928 in Monroe, Louisiana. Today, with its worldwide alliance partners, it serves more than 300 destinations in more than 50 countries.

You are settling into your window seat, bound for a summer vacation, when the flight attendant wishes you a happy birthday or commiserates about the lousy weather that delayed the last leg of your trip. It might feel like the flight crew has been scouring your recent social media posts, but at some airlines, that wouldn't be necessary. Carriers such as United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines are giving gate agents and flight attendants access to more customer data in hopes of giving passengers more personalized service. Still, there is only so much a birthday greeting can do to make up for a lost bag or late arrival, particularly when airlines want to steer clear of conversations that feel too personal. While in-cabin recognition might be the most visible way airlines are working to do more with the troves of data they collect, behind-the-scenes efforts to mine stats on everything from collisions between airport vehicles to turbulence touch almost every piece of a passenger's trip.

You're settling into your window seat, bound for a summer vacation, when the flight attendant wishes you a happy birthday or commiserates about the lousy weather that delayed the last leg of your trip. It might feel like the flight crew has been scouring your recent social media posts, but at some airlines, that wouldn't be necessary. Carriers like United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines are giving gate agents and flight attendants access to more customer data in hopes of giving passengers more personalized service. Still, there's only so much a birthday greeting can do to make up for a lost bag or late arrival, particularly when airlines want to steer clear of conversations that feel too personal. While in-cabin recognition might be the most visible way airlines are working to do more with the troves of data they collect, behind-the-scenes efforts to mine stats on everything from collisions between airport vehicles to turbulence touch almost every piece of a passenger's trip.